Tongue in cheek: So you need the “Oooo Aaaa” factor back? Have your Outlaw gear polished and gold plated on the outside. Extol the virtues of gold shielding. Describe how superior shielding results in darker silence and cleaner sound – the power delivered by the power supplies to the components is much less disturbed by external electromagnetic interference leaving full power available for full, accurate bass and warm, sweet highs.

With regard to friends, if you can pull off this kind of act in a convincing manner, you won’t need to pay a manufacturer to do it for you. And since it’s unlikely that any of your friends have gold plated HT processing and amplification, they’ll be wanting what you have.

(Keeping it lighthearted!)